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Ministry of Micro,Small & Medium Enterprises
National Seminar cum Exhibition, on “Scope for Growth & Development of MSMEs” to be organized at Kankavli, Sindhudurg
The Ministry of MSME is organizing a National Seminar cum Exhibition on the "Scope for Growth & Development of MSMEs" in Kankavli, Sindhudurg, Maharashtra. The exhibition will take place from 19th to 21st February 2023, and will be graced by Union Minister for MSME, Shri Narayan Rane, along with other officials. Shri Ashok Gokhe, Director, MSME Development and Facilitation Office, Mumbai, and Shri Manoj Kumar Singh, General Manager, National Small Industries Corporation, addressed the media at Kankavli today.
The Ministry of MSME has planned several initiatives for the Seminar cum Exhibition, including the distribution of certificates to Informal Micro Enterprises assisted under Udyam Assist Portal and SC/ST beneficiaries under National Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Hub . The newly formed Khadi Institution, Jansmaruddhi Khadi Gramodyog Sanstha, Sindhudurg, will also receive charkha and looms. The event will also feature a 3-day exhibition for PMEGP & Village Industries beneficiaries from 19th-21st February and a 3-day exhibition on Coir Products from 18th-20th February. Additionally, a two-day Vendor Development Programme and a special drive for Udyam registration have been organized.
Union Minister Narayan Rane's initiative has seen a new regional office for the Coir Board be opened at Kankavali on 25th February 2022 to implement more programs in Maharashtra and the Konkan region. The National Seminar will raise awareness about MSME Schemes and motivate youth to take up entrepreneurship, strengthening the commitment towards 'Atmanirbhar Bharat'.
The exhibitions will provide a unique opportunity for entrepreneurs to showcase their products and explore business opportunities. Various seminars have been organized by the Ministry of MSME, Office of Development Commissioner, Coir Board-Kochi, Mazgaon Dockyard, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd., Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd., Department of Atomic Energy, Konkan Railway, Goa Shipyard, GeM, The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority , and Small Industries Development Bank of India .
Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
Ravi Kumar, Deepak Punia among 24 wrestlers to represent India in Wrestling World Cup from December 12, in first international competition since coronavirus outbreak in March
A contingent of 42 members  will be travelling to Belgrade, Serbia to represent India at the Senior Individual World Cup to be held from December 12 to December 18, 2020. It will be the first international competition that Indian wrestlers will be participating in, after the nationwide lockdown was imposed in March due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The participation in the tournament has been sanctioned by the government at an overall cost of more than Rs. 90 lakhs and will include Air Tickets, Boarding and Lodging, United World Wrestling licence fees, visa fees and out of pocket allowances for players, coaches and referees.
The following wrestlers will participate in the tournament:
Men’s freestyle: Ravi Kumar , Rahul Aware , Naveen , Gourav Baliyan , Deepak Punia , Satyavart Kadian , Sumit 
Men’s Greco-Roman: Arjun Halakurki , Gyanender , Sachin Rana , Ashu , Aditya Kundu , Sajan , Sunil Kumar , Hardeep , Naveen 
Women’s: Nirmala Devi , Pinki , Anshu , Sarita , Sonam , Sakshi Malik , Gursharan Preet Kaur , Kiran 
India have attained a total of four Olympic quotas in wrestling through Bajrang Punia , Vinesh Phogat , Ravi Kumar and Deepak Punia. They will have two more opportunities to attain the remain quotas at the Asian Qualification Tournament scheduled in March 2021 and the World Qualification Tournament scheduled from April 29 to May 2, 2021.
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
National Digital Health Ecosystem
Union Health Ministry has adopted a holistic approach to safeguard the IT system from critical security threats across computational layers
Government of India has launched Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission  which aims to create a platform enabling interoperability of health data within the health ecosystem to create longitudinal Electronic Health Record  of every citizen.
‘Privacy by Design’ is one of the key guiding principles of ABDM and implemented following the principles of federated digital architecture. There is therefore no centralised repository of data. ABDM facilitates secure data exchange between the intended stakeholders on the ABDM network after the patient’s consent. National Health Authority is the implementing agency of ABDM.
Under ABDM, to ensure security & privacy by design and embedding the same into the integrated solutions, Health Data Management Policy  was released on 14th December 2020 by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. It is a guidance document, which sets out the minimum standards for privacy and data protection that should be followed by all the participants/stakeholders of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission  ecosystem. Health Data Management Policy specifies that no data shall be shared with any other entity without consent of the individual .
To ensure adequate security measures, NHA has also onboarded the Ministry of Electronics and IT empanelled Tier 3 cloud service provider to design, develop, implement, operate and maintain ABDM IT solutions.
Chief Information Security Officer  and Data Protection Officer undertakes a periodic review of the security safeguards and takes appropriate measures to update such safeguards.
The Union Health Ministry has adopted a holistic approach to safeguard its IT system from critical security threats across computational layers. Specific model is conceptualized considering security requirements to safeguard its IT ecosystem from a range of security threats and abiding mitigation measures covering compliance, infrastructure, application, and other security domains.
The Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Prof. S.P. Baghel stated this in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
COVID-19 Vaccination Update
More than 29.10 Crore vaccine doses provided to States/UTs
More than 3.06 crore doses still available with States/UTs to be administered
As part of the nationwide vaccination drive, Government of India has been supporting the States and UTs by providing them COVID Vaccines free of cost. In addition, the Govt. of India has also been facilitating direct procurement of vaccines by the States/UTs. Vaccination is an integral pillar of the comprehensive strategy of Government of India for containment and management of the pandemic, along with Test, Track, Treat and COVID Appropriate Behaviour.
Implementation of the Liberalized and Accelerated Phase-3 Strategy of Covid-19 Vaccination has started from 1st May 2021.
Under the Strategy, in every month 50% of the total Central Drugs Laboratory  cleared vaccine doses of any manufacturer would be procured by Govt. of India. It would continue to make these doses available to the State Govts totally free of cost as was being done earlier.
More than 29.10 crore  vaccine doses have been provided to States/UTs so far, through Government of India  and through direct state procurement category.
Of this, the total consumption, including wastages is 26,04,19,412 doses .
More than 3.06 crore  COVID Vaccine doses are still available with the States/UTs to be administered.
Furthermore, more than 24,53,080 vaccine doses are in the pipeline and will be received by the States/UTs within the next 3 days.
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Recovered cases exceed active cases by more than 96,000
COVID-19 Recovery rate improves to 58.24%
The graded, pre-emptive and pro-active steps taken by Government of India along with the States/UTs for prevention, containment and management of COVID-19 are showing encouraging results.
The recovered cases have exceeded the active cases by 96,173.
During the last 24 hours, a total of 13,940 COVID-19 patients have been cured, taking the cumulative figure to 2,85,636. This has led to the recovery rate touching 58.24% amongst COVID-19 patients.
Presently, there are 1,89,463 active cases and all are under active medical supervision.
In the quest to expand the COVID-19 testing labs network across the country, ICMR has inducted 11 new labs in the last 24 hours. India now has 1016 diagnostic labs dedicated to COVID-19. This includes 737 in the government sector and 279 private labs.
The present status is as below:
• Real-Time RT PCR based testing labs: 560 
• TrueNat based testing labs : 369 
• CBNAAT based testing labs : 87 
The numbers of samples tested very day continues to steadily grow. During the past 24 hours, 2,15,446 tests have been conducted in the labs. The total number of samples tested, as on date, is 77,76,228.
For all authentic & updated information on COVID-19 related technical issues, guidelines & advisories please regularly visit: https://www.mohfw.gov.in/ and @MoHFW_INDIA .
Technical queries related to COVID-19 may be sent to technicalquery.covid19[at]gov[dot]in and other queries on ncov2019[at]gov[dot]in and @CovidIndiaSeva .
In case of any queries on COVID-19, please call at the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare helpline no.: +91-11-23978046 or 1075 . List of helpline numbers of States/UTs on COVID-19 is also available at https://www.mohfw.gov.in/pdf/coronvavirushelplinenumber.pdf .
AYUSH
Exchange programs with foreign universities to promote Yoga and Traditional Medicine
The Ministry of Ayush has provisioned the exchange of experts in traditional medicines and students with foreign universities, under the MoUs signed between the autonomous bodies under the Ministry of Ayush and foreign Universities/Authorities to promote Yoga, Ayurveda and Traditional Medicine on the International scale. The Ministry of Ayush has signed 24 country-to-country level MoUs, 40 Institute level MoUs and 15 Ayush Academic Chair MoUs with foreign nations. The Ministry of Ayush, for the promotion and propagation Ayush system abroad, offers scholarships to eligible foreign nationals for undertaking degree courses in Ayush systems in premier Institutes in India under its International Ayush Fellowship Programme with the aim of achieving recognition and acceptance of our Traditional Medicine Systems abroad. The Ministry of Ayush also collaborates with foreign universities by signing Institute level MoUs for establishing Ayush Academic Chairs abroad. At present, 03 active Ayush Academic Chairs have been set up i.e. at Hamdard University , the University of Latvia , the University of Mauritius . The Ministry of Ayush exchanges International experts & officers to and fro India under the components 3-A-a and 3-A-b of the IC Scheme.
The Ministry has collaborated with the Ministry of Education to include Yoga, Ayurveda and Traditional Medicine in the school curriculum at the national level and following are the details of the said initiative:
- Vide DO letter dated: 29.09.2021, Ministry of Ayush requested Ministry of Education for integration of teachings of Indian Traditional System of Medicines in the curriculum of school education.
- An Advisory Group and a Committee to develop educational material for students of school education and higher education are constituted by the Ministry of AYUSH dated 22.09.2022.
- The first meeting of the Advisory Group was held on 13.10.2022.
- As per the decision taken by the committee the sub-groups depending on age and standard of education are created.
- As per the decision, the director, NCERT was requested to nominate four experts for four committees on 13.01.2023.
This information was given by Minister of Ayush Shri Sarbananda Sonowal in a written reply in Loksabha today.
Ministry of Defence
India and Indonesia agree to further enhance bilateral defence cooperation in Defence Ministers’ Dialogue today
Defence Ministers’ Dialogue between India and Republic of Indonesia was held here today. Indian delegation was headed by Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh while the Indonesian delegation was led by its Defence Minister General Prabowo Subianto, who is in India for strengthening the ties between the two maritime neighbours.
During the talks, Raksha Mantri reiterated the long history of mutually beneficial interactions between the two countries with a tradition of close political dialogue, economic and trade linkages as well as cultural and people to people interactions.
Conveying satisfaction on the military to military interactions, Shri Rajnath Singh indicated that the defence cooperation between India and Indonesia has witnessed an upswing in the recent years, which is in consonance with the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the two sides. Both the Ministers agreed to further enhance the bilateral defence cooperation in mutually agreed areas.
Potential areas of cooperation in the field of defence industries and defence technology were also identified by the two countries. Both the Ministers committed themselves to further strengthen bilateral cooperation in these areas and take them to the next level of deliverables.
The meeting ended on a positive note with a commitment to further strengthen and widen the scope of the bilateral cooperation between the two countries.
Chief of Defence Staff & Secretary Department of Military Affairs General Bipin Rawat, Chief of Army Staff General M M Naravane, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Karambir Singh, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal R K S Bhadauria and Defence Secretary Dr Ajay Kumar and other senior civil and military officials also took part in the bilateral meeting.
General Subianto was given ceremonial Guard of Honour on the lawns of South Block when he arrived for the Dialogue. He was personally received by Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh at the venue. Earlier, General Subianto visited the National War Memorial and laid a wreath as a mark of respect to the fallen heroes.
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Ministry of Micro,Small & Medium Enterprises
Atmanirbhar Bharat Package
The Government has taken a number of initiatives under Aatmanirbhar Bharat Package to support the MSMEs. These include:
- Rs. 5 lakh crore Collateral Free Automatic Loans under Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme  for business, including MSMEs.
- Rs. 50,000 crore equity infusion through MSME Self-Reliant India Fund.
- New revised criteria for classification of MSMEs.
- No global tenders for procurement up to Rs. 200 crores.
- “Udyam Registration” for MSMEs, for Ease of Doing Business
- Launching of an online Portal “Champions” in June, 2020 to cover many aspects of e-governance including grievance redress & handholding of MSMEs.
The details of the number of MSMEs in handloom, handicraft and agro-based production as identified from NIC Codes and the number of women employed across such enterprises, State wise, are given in Annexure-I.
The number of women employed in handloom, handicraft and agro-based enterprises in Hazaribagh and Ramgarh districts of Jharkhand is at Annexure-II. The MSMEs who have registered on Udyam Portal in Hazaribagh and Ramgarh districts of Jharkhand and are eligible for receiving benefits available under various schemes of Ministry of MSME as per scheme guidelines.
Ministry of Home Affairs
NDMA conducts training programme for CBRN emergencies at Bengaluru airport
The National Disaster Management Authority  is conducting a basic training programme at the Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru. The six-day training programme, aimed at enhancing the preparedness of Airport Emergency Handlers  to respond to CBRN emergencies at the airports, started today. CBRN emergencies pertain to threats emanating due to Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear material.
The training programme is being conducted in collaboration with the Airport Authority of India , Institute of Nuclear Medicine & Allied Sciences  and National Disaster Response Force .
Handling CBRN emergencies need specialised skills and efforts. In fact, even a small CBRN related event can cause panic among people at the airports. This training programme will improve the CBRN safety at our airports by enabling the AEHs to handle any CBRN emergency.
The programme consists of lectures as well as field training, including live demonstrations of detection and decontamination including use of Personal Protective Equipment . Besides equipping the AEHs to handle CBRN emergencies, the training programme will also enable them to provide medical first aid and initial psycho-social support.
Experts from stakeholder departments such as Department of Atomic Energy , INMAS, National Centre for Disease Control , National Institute of Mental Health & Neuro Sciences  and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre  will train the participants.
A total of 50 participants representing various agencies responsible for operation and maintenance of the airport will be trained on various aspects of CBRN emergencies. Another 150 working level staff will be sensitized on the subject in a half day module.
This is the tenth in a series of such programmes being conducted at airports across the country to enable AEHs to respond suitably till the arrival of specialised response teams. Nine batches have already been trained - one each in Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, Varanasi, Patna, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Chandigarh and Raipur.
Ministry of Finance
More than 37,000 users joined UPI123Pay since its launch on 8th March 2022
Various steps have been taken by Reserve Bank of India  to expand the reach of UPI outside India. This was stated by Union Minister of State for Finance Dr Bhagwat Kisanrao Karad in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today. The steps are given below:-
- NPCI International Payments Limited , a wholly owned subsidiary of National Payments Corporation of India  is devoted for internationalisation of UPI. NIPL has undertaken various initiatives across nations to enable cross-border acceptance of BHIM UPI QR at merchant establishment. These partnerships will facilitate Indian travellers to make payments using the BHIM UPI QR for all their retail purchases at international merchant establishments.
- Currently, BHIM UPI QR has gained acceptance in Singapore , Bhutan  and recently with partners in UAE and Nepal . However, travel restrictions owing to the pandemic over the last two years have impacted overseas use of this facility.
- In this regard, RBI has been facilitating engagements for the expansion of UPI in countries which have potential for collaboration. Various models of engagements being explored are as follows:
- Central Bank to Central Bank cooperation through an agreement or MoU;
- Central Bank facilitated discussion and agreement between the network and the Central Bank / Government Agency; and
- Network to network arrangement.
Further, the performance of UPI123Pay launched in March 2022 is as follows:
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March 2022|
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Users on-boarded
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37,096
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Balance check
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31,473
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Successful transactions
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21,833
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Successful transactions value 
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79.15
Source: RBIdata is as on 21.03.2022
Ministry of Women and Child Development
SCALE OF HUNGER
The estimated number of underweight, malnourished and severely malnourished children under 5 years of age is obtained under National Family Health Survey  conducted by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare. As per the recent report of NFHS-5 , the nutrition indicators for children under 5 years have improved as compared with NFHS-4 . Stunting has reduced from 38.4% to 35.5%, while Wasting has reduced from 21.0% to 19.3%. Underweight prevalence has reduced from 35.8% to 32.1%.
In order to address challenges of malnutrition, Government has taken steps to improve nutritional quality and testing, strengthen delivery and leverage technology under Poshan Tracker to improve governance. Streamlined Guidelines were issued on Quality Assurance, Roles and Responsibilities of Duty Holders, procedure for procurement, integrating AYUSH concepts and Data Management and Monitoring for transparency, efficiency and accountability in delivery of Supplementary Nutrition on 13.01.2021. Government has advised States/UTs to launch a drive for identification of SAM children for referral to hospitals  and AYUSH centres in accordance with the detailed action plan approved by the District Nutrition Committee to be finalized in consultation with the Chief Medical Officer.
Further, Mission Poshan 2.0, an integrated nutrition support programme has been announced in budget 2021-2022 for all States/UTs. It seeks to strengthen nutritional content, delivery, outreach and outcomes with focus on developing practices that nurture health, wellness and immunity.
This information was given by the Minister of Women and Child Development, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani, in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.
Ministry of Tourism
1, 62, 660 cruise passengers visited the country in 2017-18: Shri. K J Alphons
Projects of Rs. 106.39 Cr sanctioned by M/o Tourism for development of cruise terminals in four States
A Task Force on Cruise Tourism has been formed jointly by the Ministry of Tourism and Ministry of Shipping with representatives of all major ports and stakeholders for coordinated efforts to create an enabling ecosystem for the development of Cruise Tourism in India. The Task Force meets regularly and the last meeting of the Task Force was held on 21.05.2018.
During the year 2017-18, a total of 1,62,660 cruise passengers visited India at six major ports namely Mumbai Port, Chennai Port, Cochin Port, Kolkata Port, New Mangalore Port and Mormugao Port. During the same period, total 139 Cruise ships visited India at six major ports namely, Mumbai Port, Mormugao Port, New Mangalore Port, Cochin Port, Chennai Port and Kolkata Port.
The Government has taken following steps to increase the flow of cruise tourists in the country:
 Foreign flag vessels carrying passengers with effect from 6th February, 2009 have been allowed to call at Indian ports for a period of 10 years without obtaining a license from Director General of Shipping. This facility has been extended further for a period of 5 years i.e. up to 5th February, 2024.
 Standard Operating Procedures  for cruise vessels have been revised and operationalized w.e.f. November, 2017 for uniform, redefined processes to be observed by all major ports.
 Immigration counters have been set up at five major ports visited by cruise ships. The facility of E-visa has been extended to five sea ports namely Mumbai, Goa, New Mangalore, Cochin and Chennai.
 Cruise tourists arriving with E-visa have been exempted from the requirement of biometric enrolment for a period of three years i.e. till 31.12.2020 to facilitate expeditious immigration clearance.
 The port charges have been reduced and all major ports now charge a uniform single rate of $0.35 per Gross Registered Tonnage  for first 12 hours of stay w.e.f 3rd November, 2017 and will remain in force for a period of three years.
 The ports do not levy any priority/ousting/shifting charges for berthing the cruise vessel.
 Walk-in berthing/preferential berthing to homeport cruise without any extra charge is now available.
 To address manpower, coordination and logistic issues for handling cruise vessels at ports, Port Level Facilitation Committees have been formed under the respective Chairman of the above-mentioned major Ports to facilitate seamless handling of cruise ships and passengers
The Ministry of Tourism has also sanctioned various projects for the development of Cruise Terminals related infrastructure in Goa, Maharashtra, Kerala and Tamil Nadu at the major ports for Rs.106.39 Crore under the Scheme for ‘Assistance to Central Agencies for Tourism Infrastructure Development’.
This information was given by the Minister of State  for Tourism Shri. K. J. Alphons, in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.